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Hi all What is the use of hashcode() function? Is it related to hashtable class ? please help
Layne Lund
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I am not completely sure, but I think you are on the right track. AFAIK, the HashTable and related classes from the Container API use the hashcode() function when it stores an object.
A hashcode is usually used as an efficient way of searching for stored objects. Say you have a list of 1000 names, it would take a reasonable amount of time to search for the name "Jeremy Thornton" in the list. If however you stored the names according to their hashed value (which is what the HashX type containers do) you just search for the hash of "Jeremy Thornton" - an integer - instead. As integer processing is much faster than string processing the search is much quicker. Hoper this helps, Jeremy.
Shyam Purkayastha
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thanks a lot jeremy
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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